Put the verdict where you work

The badge

/badge.svg renders “Claude IQ today · 48 · Meh”, coloured by the zone. Pick a style and a theme to match where it is going.

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Refreshes every five minutes. The colour follows today’s zone, from clown red to genius green.

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[![Is Claude dumb today? Live community score](https://isclauderetarded.today/badge.svg)](https://isclauderetarded.today)

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<a href="https://isclauderetarded.today"><img src="https://isclauderetarded.today/badge.svg" alt="Is Claude dumb today? Live community score" height="20"></a>

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The JSON endpoint

GET /api/today returns today’s score, verdict and vote count. CORS is open, responses are cached for a minute at the edge, and the shape below is the whole contract.

{
  "date": "2026-09-25",
  "score": 48,
  "verdict": "Meh",
  "emoji": "😐",
  "votes": 37,
  "average": 46.2,
  "yesterday": 42,
  "delta": 6,
  "asOf": "2026-09-25T14:03:11.000Z",
  "url": "https://isclauderetarded.today",
  "badge": "https://isclauderetarded.today/badge.svg"
}

In a browser, a bot, a cron job:

const res = await fetch("https://isclauderetarded.today/api/today");
const { score, verdict } = await res.json();
console.log(`Claude is ${verdict} today (${score}/100)`);

score

0–100, today’s live community score (blended with yesterday until enough votes are in).

verdict

Retarded · Questionable · Meh · Smart · Genius.

votes · average

Votes cast since 00:00 UTC and their raw mean (null with no votes).

yesterday · delta

The last finalized score and today’s change against it.

Also useful: the RSS feed of daily verdicts, the score history, and one page per day at /day/YYYY-MM-DD.